[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 173 (Thursday, September 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46820-46821]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22587]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[AZ-950-5700-77; AZA 5968, AZA 29172]


Public Land Order No. 7214; Partial Revocation and Modification 
of Public Land Order No. 5279; Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order revokes a public land order insofar as it affects 
103.81 acres of National Forest System lands withdrawn for the Payson 
Administrative Site and the Cline Cabin Wildlife Enclosure. The 
revocation is needed to accommodate a proposed land exchange. Of the 
103.81 acres being revoked, 63.81 acres are temporarily closed to 
mining by a Forest Service land exchange proposal, and 40 acres will be 
opened to mining. This order also modifies the withdrawal on the 
remaining 296.41 acres to establish a 20-year term under which these 
lands would remain closed to mining. All of the lands have been and 
will remain open to mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 16, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cliff Yardley, BLM Arizona State 
Office, P.O. Box 16563, Phoenix, Arizona 85011, 602-650-0509.
    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by Section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 
43 U.S.C. 1714 (1988), it is ordered as follows:
    1. Public Land Order No. 5279, which withdrew lands for an 
administrative site and a wildlife enclosure, is hereby revoked insofar 
as it affects the following described lands:

Gila and Salt River Meridian

Tonto National Forest

1a. Payson Administrative Site

T. 10 N., R. 10 E.,
    Sec. 2, lots 5, 7, 9, and 11.

1b. Cline Cabin Wildlife Enclosure

T. 4 N., R. 9 E.,
    Sec. 3, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\.

    The areas described aggregate 103.81 acres in Gila and Maricopa 
Counties.

    2. The land described under Paragraph 1a above is temporarily 
segregated by a pending land exchange and will not be opened at this 
time.
    3. At 10 a.m. on October 7, 1996 the land described under Paragraph 
1b above will be opened to location and entry under the United States 
mining laws, subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of 
existing withdrawals, other segregations of record, and the 
requirements of applicable law. Appropriation of any of the land 
described under Paragraph 1b of this order under the general mining 
laws prior to the date and time of restoration is unauthorized. Any 
such attempted appropriation, including attempted adverse possession 
under 30 U.S.C. 38 (1988), shall vest no rights against the United 
States. Acts required to establish a location and to initiate a right 
of possession are governed by State law where not in conflict with 
Federal law. The Bureau of Land Management will not intervene in 
disputes between rival locators over possessory rights since Congress 
has provided for such determinations in local courts.
    4. Public Land Order No. 5279 is hereby modified to expire 20 years 
from the effective date of this order unless, as a result of a review 
conducted before the expiration date pursuant to Section 204(f) of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) 
(1988), the Secretary determines that the withdrawal shall be extended 
insofar as it affects the following described land:

Gila and Salt River Meridian

Tonto National Forest

T. 10 N., R. 10 E.,
    Sec. 2, lots 6, 8, 10, and 12, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, 
N\1/2\SW\1/4\, and NW\1/4\SE\1/4\.

    The area described contains 296.41 acres in Gila County.

    5. The land described in Paragraph 4 continues to be withdrawn from 
location and entry under the United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. Ch. 2

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(1988)), but not from leasing under the mineral leasing laws, to 
protect the Forest Service's Payson Administrative Site.

    Dated: August 27, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-22587 Filed 9-4-96; 8:45 am]
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